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Conservative Economics -- Finally Exposed as a Fraud
Mon May 14, 2012 12:00 PM EDT
Let's turn back the hands of time...not very far, only a few months will do. At that time Conservatives were crowing about how the "European Socialist countries" had finally learned the beauty of austerity, finally seen the light of destroying their social safety nets and how tha …
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Welcome to the Wall Street Casino...Check Your Cash at the Door
Fri May 11, 2012 12:00 PM EDT
In 2007 the deregulated banking system showed us just how flawed the Conservative, Ayn Rand-inspired view of the world can be. The world came within days of falling into complete failure of the banking system and a second Great Depression. Even now we struggle to recover from the …
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Why do We Pretend Liars Have a Place in the Conversation?
Mon May 7, 2012 12:00 PM EDT
I'm not pulling any punches today. Liars are liars, and I'm tired of the media pretending otherwise. The "truth" doesn't exist halfway between facts and blatant falsehood, period. This member of ALEC isn't an honest participant in ANY debate, period.
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The Election is All About a Lot of Stuff
Fri May 4, 2012 12:00 PM EDT
Today the newest jobs report is released, and once again we'll be reminded that the electon is "all about jobs." It's a great way for the scribes to be lazy and simplistically focus on just one thing. It's also a great way for the Conservative echo chamber to try to gain control …
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A Time of Mischief and Imagination
Fri Apr 27, 2012 12:00 PM EDT
Here we are in April, months from convention time. It's a time when challengers haven't been forced to release any specifics, and incumbents spend a lot of their time with governance, yet there's a fully developed political press needing things to do. This is the time when …
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What's Up, Chuck?
Mon Apr 23, 2012 12:00 PM EDT
An open letter to Senator Chuck Grassley; Mr. Grassley, I'd refer to you as "my" Senator, but lately you've made it obvious that is no longer the case. The most recent example of that was only yesterday. It bothers you that attention is being turned to the shadowy, quasi-legal lo …
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Wearing a Mitre, Jumping the Shark
Fri Apr 20, 2012 12:00 PM EDT
Conservatism has long been a topsy turvy world, one where up is down and day is night. Perhaps one of the most insidious representations of this is the tendency of the Right to define inability to impose their will on others as somehow being an infringement on their rights …
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The "Job Creators" myth part 1,000,006
Mon Apr 16, 2012 1:00 PM EDT
It’s a matter of faith among today’s Conservatives that “no one ever got a job from a poor person.” Chanted like a mantra, it’s not even open to question that all of us owe a tip of the hat and further expensive tax breaks as well as a heaping helpin …
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The Republican Ride Nears its Inevitable End
Tue Apr 3, 2012 8:16 AM EDT
Nice piece of horse race journalism here #.T3rqENmM-So , but as usual with such things it's missed an important point. The Romney-Santorum race represents a split within the Conservative Movement that's always existed but never …
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The Orange Plague
Tue Dec 20, 2011 1:00 PM EST
So is written yet another chapter in the most amazing political tragedy of our time...the amazing, continuing failure of House Speaker John Boehner.
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Hope You Enjoy Plutocracy
Mon Nov 7, 2011 1:00 PM EST
There hasn't been a lot for average Americans to applaud in regard to Herman Cain, but he deserves credit for his honesty on at least one occasion. That would be when he recently admitted to whom he was beholden;
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An Open Letter to Occupy Wall Street
Fri Oct 28, 2011 1:00 PM EDT
Dear Occupiers, We all know this is a critical period. You're succeeded in changing the conversation in America. You have our attention. We're now talking about how to create jobs, how to make education affordable, income inequality, inequality of opportunity, a …
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Dirty Hippies, Eh?
Wed Oct 26, 2011 1:00 PM EDT
Conservative supporters of the wealthy elite have been working really hard to marginalize the Occupy Wall Street protesters, describing them alternately as "a bunch of dirty hippies who don't know what they want" or steely-eyed radicals hiding their true intent to bring dow …
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Liberalism Isn't Dead
Mon Oct 24, 2011 1:00 PM EDT
With little good news for Conservatives of late Righties have concentrated a lot of attention on creating a negative definition of Liberalism. Clearly it would be more effective were GOPTP partisans able to spend that energy defining themselves positively, but when life giv …
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Why the Money Changers Should be Thrown Out of the Temple
Mon Oct 10, 2011 1:00 PM EDT
The political class and the Washington media seem to be having a difficult time putting their fingers on what Occupy Wall Street is all about. A thorough reading here is probably the best way to start getting an idea of what's happening. …
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You Really Can't Fool All the People All the Time
Fri Oct 7, 2011 1:00 PM EDT
They say you can't fool all the people all the time. Turns out they're right. Republican Conservatives, after promising "jobs, jobs, jobs" during the last electoral campaign switched to deficit reduction the moment they took their oaths of office in January. Tha …
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Go Ahead and Say it...It's Class Warfare
Mon Oct 3, 2011 1:00 PM EDT
Last week I was chastised for quoting Economists who believed we should enact government policies similar to the American Jobs Act when I could have quoted Donald Kaul instead. Kaul is a smart and witty writer who’s been twice nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, so this w …
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Of Job Creators and Unicorns
Thu Sep 29, 2011 1:00 PM EDT
Another day, another new First Thoughts column under which Conservatives will repeatedly gnash their teeth over the confiscatory taxation which prevents the wealthy “job creators” from actually, you know, creating jobs. They’re remarkably closed-mouthed wh …
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What if we Listened to Economists?
Mon Sep 26, 2011 1:00 PM EDT
Although much of the MSM likes to treat the world of politics as a simple horse race and messaging contest and ignore the impact of that world on the real lives of ordinary Americans, the rest of us can’t afford to treat it that way. While our weak recovery is threate …
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Carter Created More Jobs Than Bush
Sun Sep 25, 2011 5:18 PM EDT
It didn’t take long too for it to become obvious that Republicans will stick to their obstructionist tendencies in opposing the American Jobs Act. Meanwhile, thanks to ALEC, Conservative legislators have their marching orders. Mere citizens aren’t allowed …
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I Don't Use Government Programs
Sun Sep 11, 2011 8:58 PM EDT
Last time I demonstrated how the “creators” of Conservative mythology are as a class just enriching themselves at the expense of the American economy while demanding that the rest of us “leeches” bow and scrape before them. It’s pretty clear th …
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Creators, or Destroyers?
Wed Aug 24, 2011 9:26 AM EDT
Last time I demonstrated how the “creators” of Conservative mythology are as a class just enriching themselves at the expense of the American economy while demanding that the rest of us “leeches” bow and scrape before them. It’s pretty clear th …
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Business Doesn't Need Certainty
Tue Aug 23, 2011 10:28 PM EDT
Yesterday I connected the dots and discovered the GOPTP really means it when they refer to average Americans as leeches, unworthy of the same benefits given to the corporate jet crowd. Perhaps Conservatives have a point, however, in that people who can’t remember how …
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They Really Do Think We're Leeches
Mon Aug 22, 2011 9:39 AM EDT
I’ve written here before about the true religion of the Conservative Movement—the Ayn Rand-based belief that a handful of the wealthiest among us are the only “job creators” while 98-99% of us are “leeches.” That’s been the approach …
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Pickett's Charge
Thu Jul 14, 2011 10:31 AM EDT
"Asking what the U.S. economy might look like after a possible U.S. Treasury default is akin to asking 'what will you do after you commit suicide,' " wrote Steven Wieting, Managing Director in the Economic and Market Analysis team of Citigroup, in a July 11, 2011 report.
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